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Roast pig is excellent! Have been on the pig train for awhile:-) This was when I was pretty young on my first pony, a mean little thing. Notice the sign on our farm.

I got an email from the freight company saying tentative delivery date is next Tuesday which is one week transit fron Ca. Got my wife primed to use the camera a lot.

I am going to get a cover made that fit comfortable with the wings up. I also want it to hook under the feet as the tie down points since we have some pretty good winds here. We have boat cover makers in town that should do the trick perfectly.

Thanks, I have several packing/moving blankets/pads, and the styrofoam idea is a nice touch too:-)

So if I hire a crane how do you think they could lower it into place? IF I could hire heavy equipment I would do so. I used to own a Caterpillar bulldozer and am a believer in heavy equipment when possible BUT the closest I could get a crane to the destination is 75 ft but that is not the problem. There are 3 phase power lines directly above where I took the photo of the driveway looking at the garage. The other side, downhill slope, of that garage roof covers the patio, which can be seen in the photo taken from the beach side of the home. Cranes lower things from the space above them and if I tore off the patio roof (very expensive, more than the cost of the KK by 4X+) I could do it with a floating crane pushed up to the beach at high tide, but that is not going to happen. I like that roof with the stainless steel chimney going through it. The space between the fence and the garage concrete wall is to narrow. 36 inches and uneven sloped ground which makes that carrying, and especially rolling, a risky proposition. I have a pro football guy living across the street and I have made contact with a couple of other folks that move/haul things for a living. I suspect I will be able to get one or 2 more so there is a crown of muscle willing to help. I spent the day making a plywood cladding for the stairs(in the photo) that I plan on lowering the KK down onto the patio (32 degree slope) and I have affixed winching/retaining straps to the landing above the stairs and I am 100% positive I can winch up or down 500 pounds that slope. This indeed will be interesting but not impossible. In all likelihood I could probably move it by myself, working slow and methodically but if I can get the muscle gathered then it will go smoothly.

You are correct, easy is good since getting the blood pumping while trying to do something else would hurt even with hand elevated. Range of motion with knuckle being involved is scary. Infection would be a concern as well so taking it easy and keeping it clean, dry and drinking good fluids and eating good food is essential. I have been pretty lucky in life when it comes to trauma and have survived all of it, so far I hope she has a designated cooker/chef for the KK!!

No, put her hand up so it will throb less! Feet up makes the blood rush toward the other end of the body. Sitting up in the easy chair with hand higher than head is probably most comfortable and I would wager she has already found out

Tiles hanging BELOW the gasket?? How could you set the lid down and NOT damage them?? Set it upside down some way?

Well, that certainly looks better, but very painful. What the heck is that hook thing with the white ball?

Age is a cruel mistress isn't she?!? Our Golden Year are more like tarnished brass. Do you travel through metal detectors in your normal routine? They are a big hassle for me, and now radiation detectors can trip from my cancer treatments.

I have been planning to do that. I understand that a long handles wrench is provided to loosen the hinge and or spring but until I look at it I do not know enough about how to remove it. My question would be is there ANY tension on that big spring once the lid it up? I have wide nylon lifting straps, usually used for overhead cranes, that I can wrap around the KK and then fasten to the front of my MINI Cooper with the towing eye bolt (really nice feature) so I can watch it as it goes down that slope as a couple of people steady the top for side to side or forward tipping. Moving big heavy unwieldy things is always a challenge. I plan on photographing the entire process so as disasters happen it can be used as a "What NOT to do" demonstration

You are so fortunate. Drugs are an evil necessity at times and my first broken bone was a pinky finger that got stepped on in the sandbox while in kindergarten. I managed to go another 15 years and then had my pelvis fractured by shrapnel so that make 2 broken bones. Fortunately I could not see bones sticking out like your incident!

Yum!! I love rack of lamb and can't wait to try it once the Big 32 arrives. The truck SHOULD be in route...

That looks sooo good! As a person who has had family living in the Bayou country of Louisiana for 3 generations I can honestly say you know what is really good stuff!! Thanks for the thoughts and something to try when the Big 32 arrives.

Cool! I am prepared for the truck when it gets here, I just hope that is not on Black Friday, after Thanksgiving, since all the help will be off on vacation with family.

Have not seen the movie yet. It took many tries to get the bear to leave and after a week of trying everyday I was successful. Cayenne pepper does not work, bells do not work (probably sounds like a dinner bell to them), loud noises like banging trash can lids together do not work, a .357Magnum fired into the air 6 times at about 40 ft away from the bear just made him waddle slowly into the brush (he came back) and for those folks that think it was foolhardy to do that I can say that I was armed with way more than that wimpy revolver if that bear had wheeled around toward me. Because he did turn away I used the last resort solution, similar to what the Wildlife Authorities use today, a shotgun shooting a harmless load at his butt at a range of 25 yds or more. Man did that get his attention! If anyone thinks they can outrun a bear they would be sadly mistaken and possibly dead. That bear took off at a high rate of speed and was crashing through the brush to get away, snapping 1-1/2 inch branches all the way. I tracked the bear the next day when it was light for over 1/2 mile to see where it went and lost his track on our main dirt road where cars had obliterated his tracks. Interesting exercise and very sobering to know that a bear can move so fast through thick brush. That little encounter was far less stressful than knowingly driving into machine gun fire to try and rescue ambushed Army buddies on an ill fated patrol. Remember the phrase, 'Loaded for Bear"??

I don't know what I am missing, YET!

I am unfamiliar with Rutland and Bento Lighters. When I hear Bento I think Japanese food.

Try acupuncture for pain if that is possible where you live. It really helped me with multiple muscle/skeletal issues. And yes Tony B, scar have much more interesting stories. I could write a long book and my medical file is an ever expanding testament to those ideas I do not have tattoos but I would wager that they are less painful initially, physically, but can lead to emotional misgivings in the future.

Ryan, it is actually going down these stairs and I have plenty of 1-1/8" plywood. The biggest part of the equation is this driveway, but I think I might be able to hook the KK with wide nylon loading straps wrapped around it down the steep driveway using the tow hooks on my MINI Cooper. I think the only problem with that is getting the top part stable while the bottom should roll just fine. These photos give you an idea of how suddenly steep it is, but it is pretty mellow about 1/3 the way down and then into the garage. I just have to get it over the speed bumps in front of the garage and the threshold in the garage people door.

So it was 4 guys carrying and 2 stabilizing, using 2 2x4's and 4 straps? Did you try stairs with it? Did you really try lifting it from just 2 straps with it teetering on whatever axis that created? Man, that sounds harrowing If this Big 32 has 4 straps with loops in the ends then 4 guys, big guys, will be used to move just the base shell which I understand is 480 LB without firebox. Either than or roll it down the driveway on its casters (very steep at first) and through the garage and then down a short 98 ft long) flight of stairs with a shallow 32 degree angle, covered in plywood. As long as the top is stabilized it should roll just fine, maybe to fine These are the stairs to clad in plywood.

Thanks Dan, it is a good idea that Benzomatic!

Does anyone have photos of how they used their lifting straps?? Especially for the Big 32"???

No, it is an inlet inside the Puget Sound, Sinclair Inlet. That is the Bremerton Naval Shipyard to the right and the city of Port Orchard Marina to the left. We do not need night lights